期刊名称：Discussion Papers in Economics / Department of Economics, Royal Holloway
出版年度：2003
卷号：2003
出版社：University of London
摘要：Given the longstanding shortage of nurses in many jurisdictions,
why couldn’t nursing wages be raised to attract more people into the
profession? We tell a story in which the status of nursing as a ‘vo-
cation’ implies that increasing wages reduces the average quality of
applicants attracted. The underlying mechanism accords with the no-
tion that increasing wages might attract the ‘wrong sort’ of people
into the profession and highlights an (in)efficiency wage mechanism,
particular to vocations, which makes wages sticky upwards. The anal-
ysis has implications for job design in vocation-based sectors such as
nursing and teaching
